Healing Roots & Leaves

A Complete Seasonal Guide to Growing, Harvesting, and Preparing Healing Remedies

De: Owen L. Hartwell

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Discover the hidden pharmacy waiting just beyond your back door. Healing Roots & Leaves is your complete guide to identifying, cultivating, harvesting, and preparing powerful plant remedies—right from your own garden. Drawing on centuries of herbal tradition and supported by modern insights, this richly detailed book walks you through every stage of plant medicine making, from soil preparation to sustainable harvesting and precise preparation techniques.

Inside, you’ll learn how to unlock the medicinal potential of both familiar and lesser-known plants. Explore the best times to harvest roots, leaves, flowers, and berries for maximum potency. Master gentle but effective drying, storage, and extraction methods to preserve fragile compounds. Follow step-by-step guidance for crafting infusions, decoctions, tinctures, poultices, and salves tailored to specific health needs.

Each chapter focuses on a different plant or practice, offering clear instructions alongside practical tips for safety, sustainability, and integration into everyday wellness. Whether you’re brewing calming lemon balm tea, preparing immune-supportive elderberry syrup, or formulating your own balanced herbal blends, you’ll gain the skills to make potent, high-quality remedies at home.

With an emphasis on seasonal rhythms and regenerative gardening, Healing Roots & Leaves also teaches you how to replenish your soil, preserve biodiversity, and maintain a thriving apothecary garden year after year. This is more than a reference—it’s a partnership with the land that deepens your connection to both plants and your own health.

For gardeners, herbalists, and anyone ready to reclaim the healing traditions rooted in their own soil, this book offers the knowledge, confidence, and inspiration to create a garden that heals from the ground up.